QUT Faculty of Engineering and Brisbane State High School (BSHS) recently launched the Engeniator Program. This new program is designed for students in year 10, 11 and 12 supporting and elevating student understanding of what it means to be a professional engineer.
The QUT and BSHS partnership program consists of a series of year-level immersion and mentor experiences developed and supported by QUT Academics, professional staff members, QUT student ambassadors, and expertise from key industry partners.
The launch was opened with Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik, representing the Vice Chancellors Office, Ana Deletic FoE Executive Dean, Karen Whelan FoE ADLT, Wade Haynes Executive Principal BSHS and Clancy Strickland, Head of Student Partnership’s and Transitions.
90 Brisbane State High School student participants, their parents and guardians, industry partners such as Queensland Health, Airbus, Stantec and Gilmour Space Technologies to name a few, all enjoyed the networking and engaged in future-focused engineering conversations.
Joshua McJannet, the keynote speaker recently graduated from Brisbane State High (2022) and is now a first-year engineering student at QUT. Joshua received QUT’s year 12 Engineering Deans Award and this year was awarded a QUT Academic Excellence Scholarship.
Our future needs graduates who are adaptable, resilient, forward-thinking, with a mindset that has focus on sustainability and embraces emerging technology. The Engeniator Program embodies these ideologies and much more.
As the program is in its inaugural year, we look forward to supporting the development of the next generation of engineers through the Engeniator program.